LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Outreach crews, sheriff’s deputies and federal officials worked with residents of a homeless camp on the outskirts of the West Los Angeles VA campus Monday in hopes of clearing the longtime encampment that has become known as Veterans Row.
Some residents in the Brentwood area have long decried the encampment as an eyesore in the upscale neighborhoods, while also expressing dismay that many veterans were forced to live in ramshackle tents erected on the sidewalk in the shadow of the VA complex.
At least two homicides have occurred at the encampment, most recently in September, when a man was stabbed when authorities say he tried to intervene in a dispute between a man and his girlfriend.
U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough recently toured the encampment, and last month he vowed to find temporary housing for about three dozen homeless veterans who have been living in the encampment, while also saying hundreds more homeless vets would be given shelter by year’s end.
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